AKARA CONTEMPORARY presents Looking at a Tree Seeing a Forest In this new suite of paintings that move from the panoramic to the granular, evocative of landscapes that optically extend beyond, Umesh PK restores a sense of vitalism and enigma to a genre that has historically stilled much of our pulsating, alive world. In these paintings, each stroke
gathers to announce a place that is resonant with subductive currents and assertions of many
atmospheres. Across the canvases, which are allusive of but not indexical to sights seen, landscapes
that are reassembled from memory and thought erupt in choreographies of geologic life that seek
neither a spectator nor narrator but speak to the cosmos in the tongues of deep time. Umesh PK’s
method combines a devoted eye which draws on visions from what he describes as a “deeper,
archetypal layer of consciousness”. This eye senses the visual multiplicity that marks every scale of
life—from the tangled, muddy roots forming imperceptible fractals, to the chromatic plurality of a
single leaf through the passage of hours.
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